Seeing a community come together to support one of its own probably wouldn’t be possible if Baldwin County weren’t such a close-knit environment. Our goal for the next one is $25,000,” Dobson says. Along with her husband and a circle of friends, Dobson has been helping to organize raffles and other fundraisers to help Quinley and his family pay for his medical costs and living expenses while he battles the disease. Lately, a lot of Dobson’s extra time has been devoted to helping out friend and fellow Baldwin County native Bill Quinley, who was recently diagnosed with stage four colon cancer.
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If the family has free time and the weather is right, that’s where you’ll find them.Įven their family vacations are close to home, because, as Dobson puts it, “why go anywhere else when we’re already in paradise?” Usually they’ll be joined by relatives from Athens, Alabama for a week-long stay at one of the many condos available in Orange Beach. “We have our own secluded little spot close to Ono Island that not a lot of people know about,” she says. Nowadays, she says it’s more about soaking up the sun and enjoying what she calls umbrella drinks. “Things hurt a lot worse when you get older,” Dobson confesses. There was a time when she would try her hand at skiing and other water sports, but not now. Her husband is really into fishing, but she says she’s personally more of a spectator than a fisherman. “When we’re not at the soccer fields watching my daughter, we’re on the water,” Dobson says. The family really enjoys boating and being out on the waters of the Gulf. Her husband of 12 years is a sergeant with the Robertsdale Police Department.
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In addition to working full time, Dobson is a mother to a 20 year-old son and a 16 year-old daughter. “Between my work and living here all my life, I know a lot of people in the county,” she says. It also helps that many of the faces she sees on a daily basis are familiar to her. Dobson calls herself a people person, which comes in handy in her line of work. For the past 14 years, she’s worked in the insurance field, most recently for an agency in Foley. She grew up in Foley and graduated from Foley High School. Thanks to this operation, Ingram expects to have more than 20,000 meters back online by Saturday.Dobson is a Baldwin County native. “If you don’t see them in your area, rest assured they’re working on substations and they’re working on circuits to restore power,” Ingram said.īaldwin EMC officials said they had about 77,000 meters out of service on Friday morning, which is nearly 94% of their customers. Ingram said crews have been working tirelessly for the last 2 days, and that will only increase. “We try to do our part to make the lineman, who are away from home, make their evenings as pleasant as possible so they can have productive days,” said Walter Field, with Storm Services, LLC. Storm Services, a north Alabama company, recently helped in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. That’s what caused the 2000 poles to be broken,” Ingram said. “Those huge winds that we had, and the high rain that we had, that’s what caused the 4300 trees to be in our powerlines. Ingram said they’ll coordinate where crews go, and Storm Services LLC will provide shelter, and amenities with covid 19 safety measures in place. But once it hit we knew we had to embark on a large restoration project,” said Ingram. “When Hurricane Sally first came, we were expecting winds of 85 miles an hour so we weren’t expecting a category 2 hurricane. Mark Ingram, with Baldwin EMC, said the parking lot of OWA is the home base for utility crews from across the country. Storm Services, LLC set up trailers for sleeping quarters, showers, and bathrooms, as well as tents for dining. The massive operation is taking place in the parking lot of OWA, where at least 1,100 linemen are being housed and fed.
There are lines of utility trucks as far as the eye can see in Foley as Baldwin EMC called in more than 1,000 linemen to help bring power back to Baldwin County.
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